New Yorkers have a lot of thoughts about their subway map. "But I’d like to move this forward because I think it solves a crucial business need on the part of our customers." "New Yorkers are a stubborn bunch, and their focus right now is getting back to work, rebuilding the city, and making sure everyone’s healthy," she said. So far, not everyone is sold on the new design, Meyer told the WSJ. "What I’m trying to do is introduce this map in a way that doesn’t cause fear, introducing it gradually so people can get used to it," she told the WSJ, noting that she wants to better communicate how the subway actually works to customers. MTA plans on taking riders' feedback and suggestions during this experiment to see if it gets a positive reception, according to Sarah Meyer, the chief customer officer of the MTA. Small islands have been left out to make more room for the actual subway information.
It also includes Staten Island's railway, which the original Vignelli map did not do, and its water is blue and not beige. So instead of combining multiple lines together as the current map does, the new map shows them side-by-side, using the distorted space created to include important information, including Select Bus Service routes. Manhattan is way too big compared to the outer boroughs, for one. That's not to say the current Michael Hertz Associates-designed map isn't distorted also. It's based on a map by Massimo Vignelli, used from 1972 to 1979, that was discarded because it distorted the shape of NYC in order to show more precisely how the system's train lines interact, the WSJ says. RECOMMENDED: The MTA's new tap-to-pay OMNY card has arrived The MTA just introduced a new map to nine subway stations-including Times Square, Grand Central and the Fulton Transit Center-in hopes of introducing it gradually to straphangers, according to the Wall Street Journal. That subway map New Yorkers have been using for the last 40 years may be retired soon.
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